We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.

Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.